It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.